Bush just searching for al-Qaida ties

News-Times, The (Danbury, CT)

Published
1:00 am EDT, Friday, May 26, 2006

Shame on The News-Times for jumping on the Bush-bashing bandwagon without adding all the facts.

The May 13 editorial hammers the administration over the NSA telephone wiretaps without once mentioning that the only calls they searched for were calls originating from or directed to areas of the world with known connections to terrorist cells.

The News-Times gave the impression that the government was listening in on local chats we were all having between friends and relatives.

In fact, they were not listening in on or taping calls. They were simply compiling data, looking for possible links to

al-Qaida
or their affiliates. Both parties have members on the
Senate and House
intelligence committees who were briefed on this.

I agree there should not be any eavesdropping on any domestic calls without a warrant, but this was not the case here, so next time how about printing all the facts?